But that didn't stop the seal, according to SSPCA official Alistair Hill.

"The seal managed to escape from the boot by pushing down one of the rear seats and wriggling up onto the dashboard," Hill told HuffPost UK, adding that the seal ended up watching a storm out the windscreen of the car" while sitting on a "warm, dry spot on the dash."

"It's probably due to her illness that she didn't want to go back into the water and why she appeared to be friendly when approached," Kaniz Hayat, a wildlife assistant for the SSPCA, told the website.